St. Joseph of Copertino: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

St. Joseph of Copertino, credited to Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchi, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of St. Joseph of Copertino by Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchi. (Translated by Rev. Francis S. Laing.) Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Joseph of Copertino (1603 – 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping. Joseph began to experience ecstatic visions as a child, which were to continue throughout his life, and made him the object of scorn. He applied to the Conventual Franciscan friars, but was rejected due to his lack of education. He then pleaded with them to serve in their stables. After several years of working there, he had so impressed the friars with the devotion and simplicity of his life that he was admitted to their Order, destined to become a Catholic priest, in 1625. This Biography, portraying one of the great saints of the Franciscan Order, was written in 1753, at the time of his beatification. It is based on the Acta Sanctorum and the official documentation from the process for his beatification. Canonized in 1767, St. Joseph of Copertino is the Patron of Students and of those who fly. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: St. Joseph of Copertino
• Author credits: Rev. Angelo Pastrovicchi
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 2:36:11

Catalogue topics

• Catholic
• saint
• franciscan
• imprimatur
• nihil obstat
• levitation
• ectasy
• cupertino

Track guide

1. 01 - The "Supernal" Vocation" — 10:29
2. 02 - "As Gold In a Furnace" — 8:24
3. 03 - "Fellow-Citizen of the Serpahic Francis" — 6:25
4. 04 - "Caught Up Into Paradise" — 16:32
5. 05 - "Good Odor of Christ" — 25:24
6. 06 - Evangelical Perfection — 17:05
7. 07 - "In His Life He Did Great Wonders" — 22:17
8. 08 - "Glorified in the Sight of Kings" — 8:11
9. 09 - "My Life is Hid With Christ in God" — 10:43
10. 10 - A Saint's "Paradise" — 9:16
11. 11 - "Obtaining the Prize" — 9:06
12. 12 - The "Memory of an Admirable Saint" — 12:19

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